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James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton (c. 1516–1581) (abeyance terminated 1550, forfeited 1580/81) John Maxwell, 8th Lord Maxwell (1552–1593), a grandson of the 3rd Earl, succeeded briefly as Earl of Morton.
James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton (c. 1525 - June 2, 1581), was the last, and arguably the most successful, of the four regents of Scotland during the minority of King James VI. However he met an unfortunate end: during his time as regent he introduced the maiden, a primitive guillotine, to Scotland, and he was eventually executed by it himself.
James Douglas duly inherited and became Regent Morton, but both his and his brother Angus’s male lines were to fail. Notwithstanding all of this, the 3rd Earl of Morton’s second daughter, Beatrix, who had married Robert 6th Lord Maxwell, felt aggrieved at being overlooked and her son, John 8th Lord Maxwell tried to lay claim to the title when Regent Morton fell from power in 1581.
These notes detail how the Douglases received the lands of Morton. Sir James Douglas (No.257 in Johnston’s pedigree) would be the first Douglas to be styled “of Morton” and his grandson James, Third Lord Dalkeith, would be created the first Earl of Morton in 1458 after his marriage to Joan, “the dumb lady” daughter of King James I.
12 de jul. de 2016 · History has not been kind to James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton. Nowhere is his indictment more apparent than at Greyfriars Kirkyard. Other controversial characters in the Scottish Reformation are revered there and at nearby Saint Giles, but not James Douglas, who ruled Scotland from 1572 until 1580, first as de facto regent, then as Regent, and later as the power presiding over the Privy Council.
James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton (c. 1516 – 2 June 1581) was a Scottish nobleman. He played a leading role in the murders of Queen Mary's confident, David Rizzio, and king Henry Darnley. He was one of the last of the four regents of Scotland during the minority of James VI and I. He was in some ways the most successful of the four, since he ...
Roland Tanner. Morton, James Douglas, 1st earl of [S] (d. 1493). Made earl of Morton by James II (1458). Although married to Joanna, sister of James II, Morton took little part in affairs of state. However he was briefly associated with the Kennedy faction, which controlled the minority government of James III between 1463 and 1466.
